Open Document Format (ODF) is the native format of #LibreOffice – and can be used by many other office apps too. Learn how it compares to Microsoft's formats and what the future holds: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
An introduction to the Open Document Format The documents we create today, whether reports, spreadsheets or presentations, are essential for communicating, sharing and storing knowledge.
So we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025. And already, 216 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or username) o…
Co-founder Italo Vignoli shares insights on the tech, the community, and what’s next for LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a powerful open source office suite that supports all platforms: Windows, Mac, and... Read More
For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.
One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and ...
I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.
And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.
Well crap. Tried Slint, but it like, uses Alsa and doesn't have sound drivers for my main sound card, and using a USB sound card, well it broke after I saved Orca settings. Not even a restart fixed it. Meh. Ah well. Linux breaks.
@lcruggeri Seems like it would be good to encourage and normalize a trend towards sharing about what FOSS we've donated to most recently. Make it a part of FOSS social culture. If we're openly sharing every time we donate it might encourage or remind others.
My most recent donations were to the Linux Mint folks, Thunderbird, Wikipedia. My donations are always small due to my budget but repeated throughout the year as often as I'm able.
Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.
If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?
I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.
Edit: I am also willing to pay! Read further down in this thread!
(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be… There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” web.archive.org/web/2025041809… This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)
@RaccoonForFriendica This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to @JessDail for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed displaying help for a particular module from the command line, updated help after changes to object boundaries options, improved help on BASIC format codes and added type information to BASIC help pages, …
Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.8.7, the last update to the older branch. After this, all users are recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.2, the newer stable branch: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at …
@ThibaultMartin of @matrix.org sat down with @NGICommons to discuss the role Matrix plays in building a privacy-respecting, sustainable digital communication infrastructure.
Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice! The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Info…
LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's about defending our rights to access technology without barriers, to maintain control over our own files, and to study, modify and redistribute tools we use. These were topics at the recent FLISOL event in Brasilia: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
On April 26, 2025, the Estácio University Center in Brasília – Taguatinga-DF Unit, was the stage for a remarkable moment in the promotion of technological freedom in Brazil.
Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss #OpenSource
It's not often I need to use "office programs" such as #LibreOffice. But it happens, and I've been running Linux on my computers for over 25 years without looking back or really considering anything else (except when doing music stuff, which is a different story for another thread).
But are there any @ONLYOFFICE users around here on Mastodon who can share some experience with it? Is it more lightweight? How is the interoperability with other office applications? Is it functionally stable, compared against LibreOffice? How does it compare in regards to features?
Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.
Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…
DrupalCon Atlanta was one of my favorite ‘Cons in a long while. There’s a palpable energy in the air walking through the halls and into the sessions. In this blog post, I’m going to skip the appetizers and go right to the “meat and potatoes”.
@mgifford offers tips on small things you can do to help the voice of @drupal grow cumulatively across LinkedIn. - Highlight community wins - big or small. - Share what you’re doing - more than ever, people crave authentic voices. - Promote each other's work - your colleagues will appreciate your support. thedroptimes.com/47719/lets-ge… #drupal #foss
Latest maintenance release brings improved stability and fixes to the powerful free office suite Berlin, 30 April 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
In April, we in the #LibreOffice community attended events in-person (giving away cool merchandise!). We also gave talks online, and announced the location of 2025's conference: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month by posting a video from Document Freedom Day celebrations with the Nepalese LibreOffice commu…
If you join the GNOME GitLab instance and you want to create or fork a project, you'll see an error that says: "Limit has been reached You cannot create projects in your personal namespace. Contact your GitLab administrator."
Turns out, you have to add an SSH key to make it work.
yes, you are correct. It is happening on gitlab.gnome.org but not on gitlab.com (I can create a project there) thank you for the clue, I will ask on the gnome forum. Much appreciated!
Ah good. Windows 11 is installing updates and such. I thought Linux accessibility was improving. And maybe on Arch, it's better. But you shouldn't have to be a power user, and don't kid yourself, if you can install Arch, remember to install Orca, enable ESpeakup, all that, you are a power user. I shouldn't have to be a power user to enjoy Linux. Honestly, most of what I do on Linux is just using the web, email, Terminal, and using Emacs. So, meh. Maybe I'm just not good enough for Linux. And this is why I stay cinical. If saving screen reader settings crashed just about everything including keyboard input, blind people would be storming the gates of that screen reader vendor. Just saying. Ugh. I'll just keep my work computer on Fedora 41. Oh, no wonder, I've not had my anti-depressants today. Blech. #accessibility #foss #blind #linux
Wow, Orca can't keep focus right in Fedora 42. I'm not even sure how to describe this well enough. On Enafore, Mastodon client, arrow through your timeline. You'll get stuck in a loop of going down a few posts, then you'll be brought back to a previous one, and you'll be stuck around that post unless you arrow down fast enough or something. Wow I might just move back to Windows now on this computer at least.
Alright everyone on #fosstodon, LISTEN UP. @kev and @mike are (presumably) quitting. They've set up an amazing place and built it out into a real community.
Now the question is.. what do we do? I'd really like this server to keep existing. Is anyone interested in continuing Fosstodon with me?
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 3 is now available for testing. As well as all the NVDA 2025.1 updates, beta3 adds: - Updates to translations - Disallow new Remote Access session in Secure Mode - Update Remote Access interface - Add unassigned command for Remote Access settings - SAPI 4 bug fixes
Beta3 of NVDA 2025.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
